2. PRESENTED BY…
Zaigham Iqbal
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3. TOPIC
A STUDY OF CHILDREN’S BEHAVIOUR IN
RELATION TO FAMILY ENVIRONMENT
AND
TECHNOLOGICAL EXPOSURE AT PRE
PRIMARY
STAGE

4. CONTENTS
• Family Structure
• Family Environment and Child
Development
• Technological Exposure
(Vulnerability) Among Pre Primary
Children
• Statement of the Problem

5. • Objectives
• Hypothesis
• Sample
• Design and Procedure of the Study
• Tools For the Study
• Results/Conclusion

6. Family Structure
Family is the first school of the child.
Family plays an important role in the
development of the child.
According to Eitzen (2003), “Family is
a construct of meaningful
relationships”

7. Joint Family And Nuclear
Family
The institute of joint family,constitutes all
first-blood relatives living under the same
roof. This includes all first cousins and
their respective hierarchical generations.
In modern times, a nuclear family is simply
defined to be a social unit with a mother,
father and children

8. Impacts Of Joint And Nuclear Families
on Children
• The structural differences between the joint family
and the nuclear family lead to different interaction
patterns among members of the two family types.
Children in joint families are often indulged and
overprotected, which encourages child's
dependence on the mother and other family
members. In nuclear families, the child is in more
direct contact with his or her parents, and the
number of adult role models decreases. As
compared to children from joint families, children
from nuclear families are encouraged to function in
an individualized manner, take initiative, and act
independently.

9. Family Environment and Child
Development
>> Children learn the ways of people in their
culture by participating in cultural tasks
and activities.(Ogbu, 1988).
>> The family is the primary unit through
which customs, beliefs, habits, values, and
modes of behaviour are transmitted from
one generation to the next.(Saraswathi &
Dutta, 1988; Tandon, 1981).

10. Family Environment and Child
Development Cont………
>> The general literature on child
development points to the bidirectional
nature of parent–child relationships—how
the child’s behaviors influence parents,
and how parental behavior and the family
environment shape the child’s social and
emotional functioning. (Pardini, 2008;
Rutter,2008).

11. Technological Exposure Among
pre primary Children
>>As technology becomes a large part of many consumers in
everyday lives,the risk of overexposure to new advances in
technology grows for people of all ages. Children, however,
may be especially at risk of becoming too dependent on
devices and outlets such as television sets, cell
phones,music players, video games and the internet.
Technological efficiency does not in itself enrich the human
dimensions nor does it lead to expanded consciousness.
>>Congressional Public Health Summit (2000) found that
young children who see media violence have a greater
chance of exhibiting violent and aggressive behaviour later
in life, than children who have not seen violent media .

12. Statement of The Problem
The present study has been entitled
as “a study of children’s behaviour in
relation to family environment and
technological exposure at pre
primary stage”.

13. Objectives
The present study has been delimited
to achieve the following objectives:
1) To study behaviour of children interacting
with technology for more than 2 hours and
less than two hours in a day.
2) To study the behaviour of children living
in joint and nuclear families.
3) To study children’s behaviour in relation
to their family environment.

14. Hypotheses
The study has been designed to test the following
hypotheses:
1) There is no significant difference in the
behaviour of children living in joint and nuclear
families.
2) There is no significant difference in the
behaviour of children belonging to good family
environment and poor family environment.
3) There is no significant difference in the
behaviour of children exposed to technology for
less than 2 hours and more than 2 hours in a Day

15. Sample
>> In order to conduct the study, 400 students from four
schools of Jalandhar city were selected on the basis
of their family structure(Joint and nuclear),family
environment and socio-economic status(rich and poor).
>>The students (both boys and girls) of pre-primary wing
of the schools were taken.
>>On the basis of scores on family environment scale,
30% top and 30% bottom i.e. 120 families with good
family environment and 120 families with poor family
environment were taken. Therefore the study was
restricted to 240 children of pre primary stage in the
second phase.

16. Design and Procedure of the Study
• Firstly,a sample of 400 students from pre-
primary wing of the respective schools was taken.
• The addresses of the children were taken from
their class teachers.
• The children were classified on the basis of joint
family and nuclear family.
• Then the family environment scale was
administered to the parents and on that basis
joint and nuclear families were further classified
as the families with good family environment and
poor family environment.

17. • Then the technology exposure inventory
was administered to the parents.
• The children were classified into two
groups i.e. children who have technological
exposure for more than two hours and who
have technological exposure for less than
two hours in a day.
• According to this classification, child
behaviour inventory was administrated to
all the parents to assess the Behaviour of
Children

18. Tools for the Study
• The following tools were used in the
present investigation:
1. Family Environment Scale (Bhatia and
Chadha, 1993).
2. Technology Exposure Inventory (Prepared
by the Investigator).
3. Eyberg Child Behaviour Inventory
(Eyberg,1998).

19. Results/Conclusion
1. In case of children belonging to joint families
and poor family environment and more exposed to
technology have more problems than children
belonging to good family environment with less
exposure to technology in joint as well as nuclear
families.
2. In case of children belonging to nuclear families
and poor family environment and more exposed to
technology have more problems than children
belonging to joint families as well as nuclear
families with good family environment and more
exposure to technology.

20. 3. In case of children belonging to joint families
with poor family environment and less exposed to
technology have less problems than children
belonging to nuclear families with poor family
environment ,and more exposed to Technology.
4. In case of children belonging to good family
environment and less exposed to technology in
joint as well as nuclear families have less
problems than children belonging to poor family
environment and exposure to technology less than
two hours and more than two hours in nuclear
families.

21. 5.In case of children belonging to joint families,
good family environment and less exposed to
technology, have less problems then children
belonging to nuclear families with poor family
environment and more exposed to technology.
6.In case of children belonging to joint families,
good family environment and more exposed to
technology and also children belonging to poor family
environment and less exposed to technology have
less problems than children belonging to poor family
environment and more exposed to technology in joint
families.

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